Security experts see surge in downloads of spam used to attack sites hostile to WikiLeaks WikiLeaks supporters on Friday downloaded increasing amounts of the spam-shooting software used to attack companies seen as hostile — a development that...

After taking down the websites of Visa, Mastercard and others with cyber attacks, supporters of WikiLeaks tried but failed on Thursday to knock online retail giant Amazon.com offline. The loose-knit group of hackers known as...

Update: Dutch authorities have reportedly arrested a 16-year-old they claim is connected to ‘Anonymous’ Is the world witnessing its first wave of digital sit-ins? A group of “hacktivists” calling themselves...

UPDATE II: The Smoking Gun believes it knows the identity of “Anonymous,” the person who wrote a detailed, graphic description of a no-sex “one night stand” with Christine O’Donnell. The Web site identifies the...